Anyone seriously considering an international move — remote workers, families, retirees, founders. You know you want to leave; you just haven't found where you'd actually feel at home.

How is this different from just asking ChatGPT?

ChatGPT gives you an opinion. We give you a score from open data: climate normals, OECD tax tables, WHO healthcare index, Ookla internet speeds. Every number has a source. The quiz learns your trade-offs and ranks accordingly — no generic 'Portugal is great' advice.

How do you score countries?

Ten dimensions (climate, cost, tax, visa, healthcare, safety, language, internet, family, banking), each scored 0–10 from open data. We combine them geometrically, meaning one bad dimension really matters — it can't be averaged away. Hard deal-breakers exclude a country entirely.

Will more countries get a detailed map like Italy?

Yes. Italy is our proof of concept — 8,000 places, comune-level climate, prices, internet, demographics. Portugal, Spain, and UAE are next. Subscribe in the atlas to be notified per country.

Climate normals are 1991–2020 (the WMO 30-year standard — the most meaningful baseline). Tax, visa, and language data refreshes annually. Every number shows its source and year inline — nothing is hidden.

Reference

Annotations — sticky notes on the map

An annotation is a sticky note pressed onto the map. It lives at exact coordinates, holds up to a couple of paragraphs, and is the right tool for everything a pin is not: impressions, half-remembered conversations, the smell of a place after a Saturday walk.

Where to find it

In the map toolbar, find 📝 Add note. One click and the cursor turns into a crosshair. The next click on the map opens a small editor at that spot. Type, save, and a yellow marker lands.

This is an account-only feature. Without sign-in, the button is greyed out.

How it works

One field per annotation: the text body. Up to 2000 characters, plain text only, no formatting. Pasted links stay as plain text. We deliberately do not auto-link them, because the same URL in two notes can mean two different things.

Reading and editing

A click on the yellow marker opens its popup. Inside: the text and two buttons. Edit opens the editor in place. Delete asks for confirmation, then removes the annotation. Editing overwrites the text; there is no version history.

Where annotations are useful

After a recon trip: "walked here Saturday morning, market was busy, lots of older people".
After a phone call with a local: "Anna says the tram from this stop runs every 12 minutes".
For your future self, weeks later: "the village we kept driving past, never figured out the name".

What to keep in mind

No shared or team annotations today. Every note is private to your account. To share one, you copy the text out into a different tool.

Frequently asked

What is the difference between a pin and an annotation?

A pin is for an object: a flat, an office, an address, usually with a URL attached. An annotation is for a thought: an impression, a quote, a reminder, usually without one.

Can I draw a line or a polygon instead of a point?

Not yet. The data model reserves room for lines and areas, but only point notes are exposed in the UI today.

Will my annotations clutter the map if I make many?

Markers cluster at low zoom and uncluster as you zoom in. With hundreds of notes, at the country zoom you see a single bubble with a count; as you approach, it breaks apart into the individual markers.

Can I export my annotations?

Via the account page, yes. The "download my data" link includes annotations as JSON. A per-annotation export does not exist today.

Verified · 2026-05-26